Vocab S2 7 & 8 2024-2025 Flashcards
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accord
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an agreement
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accost
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to confront verbally
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accretion
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slow growth in size or amount
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cajole
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to urge, coax
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candor
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honesty, frankness
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capacious
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very spacious
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defamatory
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harmful toward another’s reputation
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defer
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to postpone something; to yield to another’s wisdom
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defile
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to make unclean, impure
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efficacious
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effective
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effulgent
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radiant, splendorous
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fathom
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to understand, comprehend
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factuous
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silly, foolish
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fecund
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fruitful, fertile
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genial
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friendly, affable
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gluttony
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overindulgence in food or drink
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goad
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to urge, spur, incite to action
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wistful
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full of yearning; musingly
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wizened
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dry, shrunken, wrinkled
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wrath
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vengeful anger, punishment
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acute
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sharp, severe/having keen insight
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adamant
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impervious, immovable, unyielding
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adept
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extremely skilled
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capitulate
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to surrender
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capricious
subject to whim (impulse), fickle
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captivate
to get the attention of, hold
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carouse
to party, celebrate
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deft
skillful, capable
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defunct
no longer used or existing
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delegate
to hand over responsibility for something
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elated
overjoyed, thrilled
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elicit
to bring forth, draw out, evoke
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eloquent
expressive, articulate, moving
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felicitous
well suited, apt/delightful, pleasing
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feral
wild, savage
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fervent
ardent, passionate
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gourmand
someone fond of eating and drinking
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grandiloquence
lofty, pompous language
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grandiose
on a magnificent or exaggerated scale
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hardy
robust, capable of surviving through adverse conditions
